A new species of bat has been described in St. Vincent! This is primarily a frugivorous bat fairly large with large ears of the Phyllostomidae family whose name should be final Micronycteris buriri (Larsen, 2011). Initially called Micronycteris Garifuna, it had to be renamed following the outcry of the Garifuna nation.

This new species is distinguished from the South American species Micronycteris megalotis Clade 4 (Gray, 1842), it would have diverged about 670 000 years. Individuals who had been used to identify this new species were captured between 2005 and 2006 by a team of the american Texas Tech University.

Is proved once again that the taxonomy of the fauna of the Antilles is still largely to be discovered, even for mammals. More of that, the four others clades of Micronycteris megalotis described in this paper have everything it takes to be raised to the rank of species.